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Tuesday, 19 May 2015

Fancy Foxes!

I
spotted this pattern on Instagram a few months ago and went on the hunt
for the pattern. I love these foxes. Full of character, especially
the dude with the glasses! In
December we had our annual "Show & Tell Evening" at The Quilt Shop.
I needed to make something quickly since I had given away
almost everything that I had made in the past year and had nothing to show! I did have my Storm at Sea Quilt top but nothing completely new and finished!

I decided to make the Fancy Foxes Quilt by Elizabeth Hartman (Fransson) in lap quilt size. It meant just 4 simple blocks. Today I grabbed my mini-models to take a few pictures of the finished product. They did their best to hold up the quilt for me to take a picture but it's very difficult when the quilt is bigger than you! Sams eyebrow though (on the right), makes me laugh everytime I look at this next picture!

Two evenings and it was done and dusted! I handquilted it with Perlé Cotton No. 8 in a simple heart design and used my scraps for binding. The backing is another fox print - super cute little foxes that look like their are looking for mischief (just like the new owners of this quilt)!

On the front the quilting is subtle but it shows nicely on the back and the colour works very well with my backing fabric!

The only thing I didn't get round to doing before the Show and Tell was sewing down the glasses. I wanted to do it by hand with a buttonhole or blanket stitch and finally almost 6 months later, I pulled it out this week to do that and the boys having been having fun with it since! It's hard to see the details of the stitching in this picture....... I love buttonhole stitching though - and I love doing it by hand instead of using the machine!

It started to hailstone mid-photoshoot, hence the big black dots on the quilt...........the boys loved it though! They were dressed for the weather, unlike me - I was out in my pj's since I've been sick all week!

You can see they love it! They were watching tv here and most possibly mid-wrestle but still, they were snug as bugs!